Recent excavations in Tajikistan's Zeravshan Valley uncovered an archaeological site dating back as far as 150,000 years, ...

Early humans may have reached adulthood around the same age as great apes, but with a slower, human-like pattern of tooth ...

Assigned to a new species, Australopithecus afarensis ... The fossilized remains of Lucy, discovered on November 24, 1974, ...

Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a prolonged childhood despite a small brain and an ...

Scientists believe individuals of the most recently discovered hominin group (the Denisovans) that interbred with modern day ...

StitchR, a new gene therapy technique, delivers large genes in two parts to treat muscular dystrophies by restoring critical proteins in animal models.

The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy rose to fame through an incredible combination of circumstances ...

Researchers hope the "exquisitely preserved" fossil will cast new light on an enduring mystery in paleontology.

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and their collaborators have discovered a new way in which RAS genes, ...

The Lafayette meteorite was discovered in a drawer at Purdue University in 1931, with no clear indication of how it got there ...

Did you know that evidence of early human presence in the Philippines dates back an astounding 700,000 years? In 2018, ...

These findings could pave the way for new treatment approaches for cancers driven by RAS mutations. Researchers at the ...